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Cause And Effect?

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Christopher Hitchens has recently wondered if the current unrest in the streets of major Iranian cities after the presidential election there had anything to do with the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Hitchens wrote in Slate, the online magazine, that the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is becoming increasingly isolated, challenged by the former president Rafsanjani, who recently traveled to Najaf, in Iraq, to visit the Ayatollah Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shi’ites. Hitchens furthers states there is a serious undercurrent in the statement issued from the Iranian holy city of Qum, to the effect that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has no claim to be the representative of the Iranian people, leading one to wonder if the clerics in Qum are opposed to clerical rule.

 

 

The noble Hitchens wants to know

If events in Iraq

Could in their way effect to show

What seems to be the tack

Some certain circles in Iran

Have taken to of late

That caused the unrest in Teheran

That may have been…but wait!

Are not the same guys still in charge

Do not they want the bomb

Does not the whole wide world at large

Look on with pleased aplomb

When Ahmadinejad insists

That Israel must die

Which is the reason he persists

In giving it a try

Whatever stuff is going on

And this is just my take

Is like a child who’s blowing on

The candles on his cake

We clap and laugh and cheer out loud

We pat his little head

We make the toddler feel so proud

He made the candles dead

They aren’t dead and here is why

The bomb is coming soon

The IAF is set to fly

The first dark of the moon

It’s clear to rhymers like myself

The ticking clock’s in Qum

I don’t need words from off the shelf

They all rhyme with kaboom

 

 

The One And Done

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A week or so ago President Obama was in Moscow, trying to reset the button in the relations between the United States and Putin’s Russia. Russia has agreed to allow the US to use Russian territory and airspace to re-supply our troops in Afghanistan, and one suspects Mr. Putin did not give away this chip carelessly. What is it President Obama gave Mr. Putin for this largesse? We don’t know, but I suspect it will be nothing good for the United States. President Obama’s entire foreign policy consists of his unalterable belief that his smiley charm will melt the steel cold heart of every dictator he meets, and that by apologizing for the United States and giving up our allies, principles and interests he can remake the world in an image acceptable to him and his radical left wing zealots. We can only hope the cliff he runs us off is not too high.

 

 

What else can we say

What more can we do

O’s here for another three years

In Moscow one day

Then Ghana, who knew?

He’s answered our very worst fears

He likes cutting deals

He thinks that his charm

Will dazzle the Putins he meets

The problem, one feels

He gives up the farm

To every dictator he greets

We know he has smarts

We’re told every day

His IQ is real and not feigned

But when he departs

How much did we pay

And what will the Kremlin have gained

A missile shield lost

An ally or two

What matter it’s all for the best

So what of the cost

What matters to you

Is that Obie passes the test

What test you may ask

The one Biden claims

Will come to inspire the One

To rise to the task

Or go down in flames

Let’s hope that it’s not One and done

 

 

Obamaman

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In yesterday’s post, A Weaker Horse, I wondered what President Obama had gotten for releasing five Iranian Qods Force officers captured in Irag at the start of the surge, and made reference in my 25 June post If This Be Treason, to the earlier release of Iranian trained terrorists who ambushed American soldiers while dressed in American uniforms, killing five and murdering four captives. But it turns out it was worse than we could have imagined. What is Obama getting for these releases of terrorists and Iranian terrorist trainers caught on the battlefield?

 

Consider the sequence: Iranian Qods Force officers captured in Iraq, and shortly after that the Iranians throw a journalist named Roxana Saberi into prison, keeping company with five British civilian contractors working in Iran. The Iranians then asked for the release of their people in return for Ms Saberi and the five Brits. The Obama administration immediately started negotiations, and today we find the outlines of the deal. We get a journalist back, the British get three civilian contractors back (two had already died in Iranian prison), and the Iranians get back hundreds of terrorists and terrorist trainers caught on the Iraqi battlefield. So the price has been set: kill as many of our guys as you like, and if we capture them we will return them as soon as you kidnap a journalist.

 

What of the deals Obama is making with our enemies? Has he some overarching strategy, something so big, so stupendous, that if it succeeds he will bring everlasting peace to the Middle East and to the world? Or is it just a deal, no different from the deals he did in Chicago? I think that’s all it is. Barack Obama has made deals that advanced his ambitions, and so this is just another deal, a deal he thinks will ingratiate him with the Mullahs in Iran with whom he hopes to strike a grand bargain. It is all of a piece with his vision of himself. Think of the people he has allied himself with on the way up: Professor William Ayers, founder of the radical Weathermen, who planted bombs in the US Capitol but never served a day in jail, and hates the United States to this day; the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, racist anti-white, anti-American hate monger; and his new Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, the man who released Puerto Rican terrorists who bombed a New York restaurant killing many people, and who will very likely shortly name a Special Prosecutor to try the Bush administration for war crimes. These are Obama’s people, and so, apparently, are Iranian killers of American soldiers.

 

 

Preacherman scream KKK

Obamaman say sweetly

Obamaman no hear him say

He listen so discreetly

Professorman hate USA

Obamaman say sweetly

Obamaman say it’s okay

He writes his hate so neatly

Mullahman say kill GIs

Obamaman say sweetly

As long as they’re all in disguise

They’re innocent completely

Mahmoudman say let’s make deal

Obamaman say sweetly

I’ve just the one to make you feel

So full of love repletely

Malikiman say out of town

Obamaman say sweetly

To all the muslims I am bow’n

And moving quite retreatly

To all of them and many more

Obamaman say sweetly

I’m giving you the whole damn store

Now bury us concretely

 

 

 

A Weaker Horse

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President Obama, against strong advice from his military commanders on the ground, has released five Iranian members of the Revolutionary Guards Qods Force who were captured in Iraq and held by the US military. The Qods Force was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of US soldiers and marines by training and supplying al Qaeda fighters with weapons, including roadside bombs. This comes on the heels of the release by Obama of Laith Qazali and the Irbil Five, who, dressed in American uniforms, ambushed and killed five American soldiers and captured four, murdering the captives when about to be caught. See my post of 25 June, If This Be Treason. I am getting quite nervous about our president. Economies recover, depressions end, but if the President of the United States is on the other side, we’re in big trouble. Of course, there will be those Obama apologists who will patiently explain to those of us who dare question, that Obama’s release of killers of American soldiers is in the best interests of the United States. Yeah, right.   

 

 

Some will say now what the hey

Releasing these five Qods

Will just be seen to only mean

Obama’s brand new buds

In Teheran will surely plan

To be more kindly for

A week or two and then, who knew

Will show our prez the door

We’re now of course the weaker horse

For crawling on our knees

And begging odd Madinejad

To be nice pretty please

And stop the dance and if by chance

You need something from us

We’ll gladly send Israeli friend

Under the Persian bus

 

 

Slip Slidin’ Away

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Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index polling numbers show President Obama losing steadily among voters. The Rasmussen survey uses a plus/minus number derived by establishing the percentage of voters who strongly approve of the president and the percentage of voters who strongly disapprove. The smaller number is subtracted from the larger number to give the poll result. On 11 July President Obama had a minus 7 poll rating, that is, 7 percent more voters strongly disapproved than strongly approved. The decline in approval has been fast and precipitous. On 10 June Obama had an approval rating of plus 9, meaning 9 percent more voters strongly approved than strongly disapproved. In the past month Obama has lost 16 points in the Rasmussen approval rating. Some years ago Johnny Cash sang a song about the crick rising up around the cabin. The lyric went How high’s the water, mama? It’s five feet high and risin’. If you look at the poll results as Johnny Cash would have looked at them, Obama is not falling, the water is rising.

 

 

How high’s the water, Obama

It’s five feet high and risin’

How wide’s the water, Obama

From here to the horizon

Whatcha gonna do, Obama

Make the water stop risin’

How you gonna do that, Obama

By something real surprisin’

Surprising how, Obama

By stopping all surmisin’

You mean them polls, Obama

Their meaning we disguisin’

Rasmussen truth, Obama

The man just feeding pizen

It don’t look good, Obama

Your panic I’m despisin’

How high’s the water, Obama

It’s nine feet deep and risin’

 

 

Baghdad Boob

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Do you remember Saddam’s comical mouthpiece, Baghdad Bob? Well, we now have Baghdad Boob. It has been revealed that the Iraqi army has been using prostitutes as informants to nab bad guys. Is this news? Is this new? Hardly. Women have been used from time immemorial to gain information that would otherwise be unattainable. A man who would suffer torture and death for not speaking is apt to disclose not only his entire life story but the most secret things of his life when wrapped in the arms of a soft, loving, sweet smelling woman.

 

 

Ah yes, the ladies do us proud

As source of information

For men do tend to talk out loud

In such a situation

While lying in a bed so warm

‘Longside a charming female

He often cannot see the harm

In telling of his email

From colleague Hamid who that day

Sent him complete instruction

On how to make the gentile pay

And how to sow destruction

Upon the unbelievers who

Would drink and do such other

Things a Muslim would not do

At least not ’fore his mother

The good Jihadist must not think

Of things beyond the warfare

Until it’s time for love and drink

With his beguiling whore fair

 

 

Flyover Country

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Saudi Arabia has recently given the okay for Israeli planes to fly over Saudi airspace to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz and elsewhere. For the Saudis, this is a no-brainer. It is difficult for us, living in what we think of as a secular age, to believe people of differing religions cannot all get along, but such is the case. The Saudis are Sunni Muslim, and the Iranians are Shi’ite Muslims, and they do not particularly like each other. The Saudis, and all the Sunni Arab states, know that if the Shi’ite Persians get the bomb, the Persian Shi’ites rule the Middle East, which up to now has been a Sunni province. And since the Israelis are the only ones capable of stopping the Persians from getting nuclear weapons, the Saudis are perfectly willing to let the Israelis take care of it for them.  

 

 

The Saudis say

That on the day

Israelis strike Iran

They might say hey

Or by the way

But never warn Teheran

The Saudis know

That when winds blow

From Persia to the west

It’s time to show

The Persian foe

Israeli planes are best

The Saudis think

That if they blink

A Persian nuke will land

And thereby sink

The Saudi kink

And all his merry band

So they’re content

To sit their tent

And watch Israelis fly

With their consent

To kill the gent

Who said the Jews must die

 

 

Paging Dr. Mengele

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Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, has co-authored an interesting article on health care in the Lancet, the British medical journal. Rahm Emmanuel of course is President Obama’s chief of staff, which explains why Zeke is now Obama’s “Special Advisor For Health Policy”, and is currently engaged in the task of turning our health care system upside down. In the article in the Lancet, Ezekiel Emmanuel and his co-authors lay out the various ways of deciding who gets treatment and who doesn’t. Part pf their recommendations for the rationed government health care is that the very young and the old get minimal health care, while the productive get taken care of. I think we’ve seen this one before, and it has always ended in someone in authority deciding who goes to the gas chamber and who does not. Another interesting item is called “Instrumental Value”, where again someone in authority decides that someone of instrumental value to society will get treated first. We’ve seen this one too. The Party bosses get their own hospitals and department stores. Of course, the largest problem in any national health care rationing system is who gets to decide who gets treated, who gets to live, and who gets to die. And we already know who the deciders will be. The deciders will be the politically connected, the liberal elites, the Rahm and Ezekiel Emmanuels of this world.         

 

 

Well now says Rahmie’s brother

We’ll fix this thing up right

And soon we’ll have another

Little bitty health care fight

We want to make things even

We want to make things fair

That’s why we shall be heavin’

Out that nasty old health care

We know right now we have the best

Health system in the world

But we progressives cannot rest

And so the gauntlet’s hurled

You’ve seen the charts you’ve seen the graphs

You know now what’s in store

The young and old get epitaphs

The rest of us will score

Of course we know that some will say

The rich will get the share

That rightfully belongs to they

Who qualify for care

And politics will surely play

A roll in who gets what

The well connected have their way

The rest of you get squat

But best of all we at the top

Already know what gives

We get to say whose life will stop

And get to say who lives

 

 

A Quid Pro Quo

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Reuters says Russia and the United States have arrived at a deal whereby the United States will be permitted to ship non-lethal supplies through Russian territory to Afghanistan. At the moment there is no word on what the United States will pay for this largesse, but rest assured, Putin will want something. The question is, what has Obama agreed to give Putin?

 

 

We all know what the price will be

It’s Georgia Putin wants

Obama says it will kill me

But you can have it once

We move the Braves to Illinois

And shift some other clubs

Though I am sure it will annoy

The White Sox and the Cubs

And then I want, said Putin’s smile

Ukraine and Poland too

The near abroad, just for a while

Then given back to you

But not until we’ve had a chance

To put in place our men

The guys who took us to the dance

And’ll take us there again

Done and done, Obama laughed

Done cheaply at the price

Much less than our Chicago graft

And nearly twice as nice

And what we get for what we gave

Just puts my mind at ease

A dozen cans of Burma Shave

And Russian MREs

 

 

Jambalay And A Crawfish Pie

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Ex-president Manuel Zelaya vows to return to power in Honduras, a power he intends to keep, following in the footsteps of his Venezuelan pal Hugo Chavez. The president of the United States has sided with the Honduran left wing fascist who had designs on being president for life and against the people in Honduras who prefer democracy. As the great Hank Williams explained it,

 

ManZelaya, a craw fish pie and a fillet gumbo

‘Cause tonight I’m gonna see my maChavez mio

When Obama, keep things calm-a, we’ll be gay-o

Son of a gun, we’ll make them run, and obey-o

 

Of course, Hank never dreamed an American president would side with the likes of Hugo Chavez, and demand a would-be dictator be returned to office, which is why his songs were mostly about being lonely. President Obama is never lonely. He has friends in high places, and the only problem for us is that those high placed friends of Obama’s are no friends of the United States.

 

When looking at Obama’s friends

We see a where this is going

We now see clearly that these trends

Show where the wind is blowing

Bowing to a Muslim king

Who really doesn’t like us

Who really never does a thing

To catch the guys who strike us

And then there’s Putin who we’re told

Is now best friends with Bama

Who’ll usher us in from the cold

And act as Bambi’s mama

The North Koreans act is mad

The Chinese act is sly-o

But Obie says it’s not as bad

As day old crawfish pie-o